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<H1><A
NAME=4>HTML</A></H1>The <A
NAME=0 HREF="../TheProject.html">WWW</A> system uses marked-up text
to represent a hypertext document
for transmision over the network.
The hypertext mark-up language is
an <A
NAME=7 HREF="SGML.html">SGML</A> format. WWW parsers should
ignore tags which they do not understand,
and ignore attributes which they
do not understand of tags which they
do understand.<P>
To find out how to write HTML, or
to write a program to generate it,
read the following sections:-
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<DT><A
NAME=23 HREF="Text.html">Default text</A>
<DD> How text is interpreted
when uninfluenced by tags
<DT><A
NAME=2 HREF="Tags.html">The tags</A>
<DD> A list of the tags used
in HTML with their significance.
<DT><A
NAME=24 HREF="Entities.html">Entities</A>
<DD> Special characters are represented
by SGML entities
<DT><A
NAME=26 HREF="../../../../../MarkUp/html-spec/html.dtd">DTD</A>
<DD> The SGML <A
NAME=27 HREF="SGML.html#5">document type definition</A>
for HTML.
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The following do not form part of
the specifciation.
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<DT><A
NAME=3 HREF="../Test/test.html">Example</A>
<DD> A file containing a variety
of tags used for test purposes.
<!-- and its <A NAME=8 HREF="../Test/test_source.txt">source text</A> -->
See also <A
NAME=22 HREF="FindingExamples.html">finding
examples on the web</A> .
<DT><A
NAME=19 HREF="Future.html">Future directions</A>
<DD> Changes suggested
for HTML improvements
<DT><A
NAME=25 HREF="HTMLConstraints.html">Constraints</A>
<DD> Design constraints for
HTML which might explain some of
its properties.
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See also
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<DT><A
NAME=z28 HREF="Connolly/MarkUp.html">New spec</A>
<DD>As edited by Dan Connolly,
convex. Comments to www-talk@info.cern.ch
please.
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